WEBVTT N PROTECTOR.JULIE: KETV NEWSWATCH 7'SMICHELLE BANDUR HAS THE STORREPORTER: THEY SAY A PICTURECAPTURES A MOMENT IN TIME.>> IT WAS TAKEN SUNDAY AFTERNOONREPORTER: SUNDAY AFTERNOON >> EVERYBODY CAME AND JUSTVISITED AND ATE AND IT WAS SUCHA NICE DAY, JUST SO NICE.REPORTER: DEPUTY MARK BURBRIDGESURROUNDED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDSAT A FAMILY GATHERING.CATHY PASLEY'S SISTERSPONTANEOUSLY SNAPS A PICTURE.THEY WERE SITTING THEREAROUND THE TABLE AND SHE WASTELLING HIM HOW WONDERFUL HISSMILE IS AND HE MADE A JOKE AREYOU KIDDING >> REPORTER: THAT MOMENT IN TIMESAVED 24 HOURS BEFORE AN INMATEATTACKED AND SHOT DEPUTIESBURBRIDGE AND PAT MORGAN AT THEPOTTWATTAMIE COUNTY JAIL.>> JUST TO SEE HIM JOKING AROUNDON SUNDAY AND THEN WE GOT THECALL ON MONDAY AROUND LUNCHTIMEABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED.IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE, SOSHOCKING.REPORTER: PASLEY COMPELLED TOSHARE THE PICTURE WITH THEGRIEVING COMMUNITY ADDING IT TO THE REST OF THEMEMENTOS AND MEMORIES COVERINGDEPUTY BURBRIDGE'S CRUISER.>> IT'S JUST SO WONDERFUL PEOPLEFEEL THE WAY THEY DO ABOUT HIM.IT'S JUST SO SAD, SO SENSELESSHE'S SUCH A GOOD GUY SO YOUNG.REPORTER: THE ACTUAL MOMENT INTIME, MAY BE GONE FOREVER THE MEMORY THOUGH, NOW SAVED FORALL TO REMEMBER MARK BURBRIDGE.PASLEY TELLS US THEY WERE HAVINGA BABY SHOWER SUNDAY FOR MARK'SSISTER-IN-LAW AND SHE SAYS SUNDAY WAS ALSO HISWEDDING ANNIVERSARY.

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Updated: 8:05 AM EDT May 4, 2017

As the memorial outside the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office continues to grow, one memento stands out: A picture taken of fallen Dep. Mark Burbridge the day before he died.Cathy Pasley believes it might be the last photo taken of Burbridge. She said family and friends gathered for a diaper party for Burbridge's sister-in-law and Pasley's sister spontaneously snapped the photo."They were sitting there around the table and she was telling him how wonderful his smile is and he made a joke about it and said, 'Are you kidding?'" Pasely said.That moment in time was captured 24 hours before an inmate attacked and shot Burbridge and another deputy, Pat Morgan, with one of their service weapons.Burbridge passed away Monday. Morgan is recovering in the hospital.
"Just to see him joking around on Sunday and then we got the call on Monday around lunchtime about what had happened," Pasley said. "It's just unbelievable, so shocking."Pasley said she had to share the photograph with the grieving community and wanted it to be part of the memorial."It's just so wonderful people feel the way they do about him. It's just so sad, so senseless. He's such a good guy," Pasley said.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa —

As the memorial outside the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office continues to grow, one memento stands out: A picture taken of fallen Dep. Mark Burbridge the day before he died.

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Cathy Pasley believes it might be the last photo taken of Burbridge. She said family and friends gathered for a diaper party for Burbridge's sister-in-law and Pasley's sister spontaneously snapped the photo.

"They were sitting there around the table and she was telling him how wonderful his smile is and he made a joke about it and said, 'Are you kidding?'" Pasely said.

That moment in time was captured 24 hours before an inmate attacked and shot Burbridge and another deputy, Pat Morgan, with one of their service weapons.

Burbridge passed away Monday. Morgan is recovering in the hospital.

"Just to see him joking around on Sunday and then we got the call on Monday around lunchtime about what had happened," Pasley said. "It's just unbelievable, so shocking."Pasley said she had to share the photograph with the grieving community and wanted it to be part of the memorial.

"It's just so wonderful people feel the way they do about him. It's just so sad, so senseless. He's such a good guy," Pasley said.